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The Vergecast

AI headphones and clicky phone keys

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of canceled-out cricket sounds: 03:29 - David, Andru, and Will react to prototype headphones that use AI to take noise cancellation to a whole new level. Hear how the best ANC headphones handle real world and lab tests We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities The University of Washington’s Semantic Hearing project UW’s Mobile Intelligence Lab 31:30 - Michael Fisher, aka Mr. Mobile, joins the show to discuss mobile phones with physical keyboards and his latest project, “Clicks,” an iPhone case featuring an integrated keyboard. Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators BlackBerry kills Ryan Seacrest's iPhone keyboard 56:30 - Andru Marino answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about the best microphone for recording your parents. How to get great audio for podcast interviews Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of Cancelled Out Cricket Sounds.

0:06.8

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting in my basement about to watch Oppenheimer.

0:11.2

Actually I should say that differently. I'm about to finish watching Oppenheimer. Actually, I should say that differently. I have been watching this

0:15.8

movie for months, but something happens every time I sit down to watch Oppenheimer, which admittedly

0:21.6

is like three hours long, so life is busy, it's hard to find three

0:24.7

hours to watch a movie. But every single time I sit down to watch this movie, somewhere between

0:29.7

two and like 11 minutes later, something happens and I have to stop watching it.

0:34.8

It's gotten to the point where Peacock's algorithm took it out of my continue watching row in the

0:40.6

app because I just assumed Peacock was like, there's no way he's ever going to finish this movie.

0:44.6

He can't possibly care. We'll just get rid of it. But I do care and I'm gonna finish it and today is the day.

0:50.5

It's Monday morning which is a super weird time to watch this movie, but it's happening.

0:55.0

I've got, I think, like 40 minutes left. Today's the day. It's going to be awesome.

0:59.0

Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today.

1:02.0

We're going to do two things.

1:03.4

First, we're going to talk about active noise cancellation.

1:05.9

You may have seen a video that our team made last summer about kind of the state of the art

1:10.7

in those like over-eared headphones that try to cancel out

1:14.0

subway sounds or airplane sounds or whatever else.

1:16.0

But it turns out the tech and science

1:18.0

underneath all of that is actually more advanced

1:21.0

than you might see on some of those headphones. and we have a really fun story about it.

1:25.0

Then we're going to talk about keyboards, specifically iPhone keyboards, and the cases that put physical keyboards back on your iPhone.

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